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Reading Comprehension Test With Answers Passage 1
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions on it.
The class ranged itself loosely in a semi-circle around the demonstration platform. Their official age was around sixteen though, in fact, it ranged from Kojo’s fifteen years to one or two boys of twenty-one.
Mr Abu, the laboratory attendant, came in from the adjoining store and briskly cleaned the blackboard. He was a retired sergeant, feared by the boys. If he caught any of them in petty thieving he offered them the choice of a hard smack on the backside or of being reported to the science master. Most boys chose the former as they knew the matter would end there with no protracted interview, moral recrimination and entry into the conduct book.
The science master stepped in and stood on his small platform. A tall, thin, dignified Negro, with greying hair and silver-rimmed spectacles. Vernier was his nickname as he insisted on exact measurement and exact speech, ‘as fine as a vernier scale’, he would say, which measured things in thousandths of a millimetre. Vernier set the experiments for the day and demonstrated them. It was a simple heat experiment to show that a dark surface gave out more heat by radiation than a bright surface.
During the class, Vernier was called away to the telephone and Abu was not about, having retired to the laboratory for a smoke. As soon as a posted sentinel announced that he was out more heat by radiation than a bright surface.
During the class, Vernier was called away to the telephone and Abu was not about, having retired to the laboratory for a smoke. As soon as a posted sentinel announced that he was out of sight, pandemonium broke out. Some of the boys raided the store. The wealthier ones swiped rubber tubing to make catapults and repair bicycles and helped themselves to chemicals for developing films. The poorer boys were more determined and took only things of strict commercial interest which could be sold easily in the market. They emptied stuff into bottles in their pockets: soda for making soap, salt for cooking………
Kojo’s cowardly conscience goaded him to protest, which he mildly did. ‘Oh shut up!’ a few boys said. Sorie, a huge boy who commanded respect and some leadership in the class growled, ‘Look here, Kojo, you are getting out of hand. What do you think our parents pay taxes and school fees for? For us to enjoy – or to buy a new car every year for Simpson?’
The other boys laughed. Simpson was the European headmaster feared by the small boys, adored by the boys in the middle school and liked by none of the seniors and African masters. He had a passion for new motor–cars, buying one yearly, ‘come to think of it,’ Sorie continued, ‘Kojo, you must take something yourself, then we’ll know we are safe.’ ‘Yes, you must’, the other boys insisted. Kojo gave in and, unwillingly, took a little nitrate for some gunpowder experiments which he was carrying out at home.
Questions
PLEASE NOTE. It is best to read through these questions before you begin to read the passage itself. This may not be a popular approach to reading comprehension tests and exercises. However, I believe it is a more effective way of dealing with any comprehension passage in an examination.
Make sure to do the multiple-choice comprehension test based on this passage. You will have the reading comprehension test with answers just after these questions.
a. For each of the following words, find another word or phrase that means the same and can replace it in the passage:
i. ranged,
ii. protracted,
iii. dignified,
iv. sentinel,
v. pandemonium.
b. Why did the boys fear Abu, the laboratory attendant?
c. How was the class left unattended?
d. How did the science master come by the nickname ‘Vernier’?
e. With details from the passage, show how the economic background of the boys was reflected in the manner they looted the science store.
f. What did Sorie do to confirm the writer’s statement that he commanded respect and had leadership skills?
g. Kojo’s cowardly conscience goaded him to protest.
What literary device is used in this expression?
h. …….. we are safe.
i. What is the grammatical name for this expression?
ii. What is its function in the sentence?
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